Pyongyang said the ‘entire US mainland is within our firing range’ and threatened ‘severe punishment’ for America if it ‘dares to invade out sacred territory’.

The chilling statement comes as a North Korean official claimed the secretive nation was building a rocket capable of traveling more than 6,000 miles.

The new missile would be capable of reaching ‘all the way to the East coast’ of the US, one of Kim Jong-un’s officials claimed.

The official told CNN Pyongyang was not ruling out diplomacy, but that beforehand, ‘we want to send a clear message that the DPRK has a reliable defensive and offensive capability to counter any aggression from the United States’.

It comes after North Korea’s deputy UN ambassador warned yesterday that the situation on the Korean peninsula ‘has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment.’

Kim In Ryong told the U.N. General Assembly’s disarmament committee that North Korea is the only country in the world that has been subjected to ‘such an extreme and direct nuclear threat’ from the United States since the 1970s – and said the country has the right to possess nuclear weapons in self-defense.

He pointed to large-scale military exercises every year using ‘nuclear assets’ and said what is more dangerous is what he called a US plan to stage a ‘secret operation aimed at the removal of our supreme leadership.’

This year, Kim said, North Korea completed its ‘state nuclear force and thus became the full-fledged nuclear power which possesses the delivery means of various ranges, including the atomic bomb, H-bomb and intercontinental ballistic rockets.’

‘The entire US mainland is within our firing range and if the US dares to invade our sacred territory even an inch it will not escape our severe punishment in any part of the globe,’ he warned.

Kim’s speech follows escalating threats between North Korea and the United States, and increasingly tough UN sanctions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that his country is curtailing economic, scientific and other ties with North Korea in line with UN sanctions, and the European Union announced new sanctions on Pyongyang for developing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday that diplomatic efforts aimed at resolving the North Korean crisis ‘will continue until the first bomb drops.’

His commitment to diplomacy came despite President Donald Trump’s tweets several weeks ago that his chief envoy was ‘wasting his time’ trying to negotiate with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, whom he derisively referred to as ‘Little Rocket Man.’

North Korea’s deputy UN ambassador called his country’s nuclear and missile arsenal ‘a precious strategic asset that cannot be reversed or bartered for anything.’

‘Unless the hostile policy and the nuclear threat of the US is thoroughly eradicated, we will never put our nuclear weapons and ballistic rockets on the negotiating table under any circumstances,’ Kim said.

He told the disarmament committee that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – North Korea’s official name – had hoped for a nuclear-free world.

Instead, Kim said, all nuclear states are accelerating the modernisation of their weapons and ‘reviving a nuclear arms race reminiscent of (the) Cold War era.’

He noted that the nuclear weapon states, including the United States, boycotted negotiations for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons that was approved in July by 122 countries at the United Nations.

‘The DPRK consistently supports the total elimination of nuclear weapons and the efforts for denuclearisation of the entire world,’ he said. But as long as the United States rejects the treaty and ‘constantly threatens and blackmails the DPRK with nuclear weapons … the DPRK is not in position to accede to the treaty.’

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Source: Daily Mail

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TECNO’s flagship phone, Phantom, won Smartphone of the Year award, while its distributing outlet Mobile Zone, won Distributor of the Year award for the third-straight year.

The win consolidates TECNO’s ever-growing popularity in the Smartphone market locally as well as in and across Africa.

Already the fastest growing mobile phone brand in Africa, the award re-affirms TECNO Mobile’s strong hold on the market, which it has impressively led over the years. In line with its leadership status, TECNO Mobile has introduced the first 1.5 GHz, 6 Core Processor handheld device, the TECNO R7, onto the Ghanaian market.

“We are excited about this. My team has worked hard to make this happen,” Maxwell Techie, CEO of TECNO Ghana said.

Mr Maxwell Techie, whose business acumen has led to the company’s growth over the years, has succeeded in making a stronger case for indigenous local business. He adds: “This would encourage us to do more. Our recent successes in Africa are ample proof of how seriously we take what we do.”

Officials of TECNO were on hand to receive all two awards at the event, which saw Ghana’s finest heads in telecommunications attending.

By: Martin Asiedu Dartey/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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A formal announcement took place at TECNO’s state of the art corporate office at Darkuman, in Accra, where the ambassadors of the ‘Ghana to Brazil’ initiative were hosted on Friday. On the sidelines of the announcement, the ambassadors of the ‘Ghana to Brazil’ campaign were presented with TECNO products.

The partnership TECNO says is a reaffirmation of their support for the development of sports in the country. A sports-friendly entity, TECNO’s support for the ‘Ghana to Brazil’ campaign is significant in many ways.

The company has donated, and continues to support several sporting initiatives. It is a major part of the Michael Essien Foundation. TECNO has also supported Ghana’s Fastest Human competition, as well as the Weightlifters Association of Ghana.

TECNO says these efforts are tied to its resolve to help project sports in the country. An award winner at the recently held SWAG Awards for its contribution to the development of sports in the country, TECNO is hopeful the partnership with the Ministry of Sports will go a long way to help the Black Stars’ campaign in Brazil.

“TECNO is excited by the job that the Ministry and the Ambassadors are doing in support of the World Cup, and believes their efforts will yield good dividends,” the company has said.

“We are optimistic the Black Stars will make us proud in Brazil. We look forward to building a lasting relationship with you.”

By: Martin Asiedu Dartey/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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